5 reasons Jada Pinkett would have rocked this...

I understand that Jada was not available for this, being in such high demand, and eventually being in the crappy Inkwell movie, but Jada was made for this role.

First of all, Jada would have been better because she and Tupac were friends and even connected at one point. Their chemistry would have been off the chain, and much more realer.

Jada also just played ghetto girls really well without having to imitate them. Janet was trying to imitate the friends she had at the time that she was trying to study and dance with in her videos. Jada wouldn't have had to pop her gum, excessively curse and try to hard, like Janet.

Janet didn't really associate with people like Q-Tip and Tupac. She really didn't like Tupac, as a matter of fact. With Jada, these were her people, she knew Tupac and probably knew Q-Tip as well. Janet is like the upper middle class yuppie at the hip hop party, trying to hard to fit in.

As far as drawing people to the theaters, well, Jada was already on the come up, she would have been fresh off her role in Menace to Society and A Different World. Maybe she wouldn't have attracted as many white suburban types as Janet, but then again, she might have, but not as many, but some.

I really believe that this part was written for Jada Pinkett, but she just couldn't be in the movie because of her schedule. She would later make the movie Jason's Lyric, playing a character somewhat similar to the character in Poetic Justice. However, if she passed up the Inkwell flop and made this, this would have been more of a classic and not the gimmick novelty flick that has people saying "Look at Janet acting ghetto, when she isn't". All this did was try to further promote her "Janet" CD, which is long forgotten. To me, Jada didn't really arrive but if she made this, she would have. Janet should've just stuck to music.